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abolition, 8 Alien and Sedition Acts, 55, 74, 76, 99 abortion, 151, 162, 164, 184 Alien Act, 99 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Sedition Act, 59, 62 (aids), 14, 181, 183–186 Allegory, The (MacKaye), 100, 155 “Acres of Diamonds” speech (Conwell), Allen, Ethan, 48, 50 11, 99 American Communist Party, 103, 119 Across the Continent (McCloskey), 9 American Company, see London Act of Congress (1790), 9 Company of Comedians Action for Women in Theatre, 161 American Dream, The (Albee), 13 actor-managers, 156–157 American Dreams (Houston), 187 Actors Alliance of America, 158 American Federation of Labor (AFL), Actresses Franchise League, 156, 158 98, 109–110 Adams, Abigail, 39, 152 American Indians, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Adams, John, 39, 41, 43, 46–47, 152 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25–26, 31, 49, 65, Adams, Samuel, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49 80–97, 101, 129, 131, 138, 144, 149, 166, Addison, Joseph, 18, 29, 40 175, 182, 183, 187, 193, 194, 196, 197, Adulateur, The (Warren), 39–40 198, 199 Aeschylus, 165 American Indian Movement (AIM), affirmative action, 173 129 African American, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 99, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 129 100, 101, 127–129, 131, 132, 133–138, Court of Indian Offences, 82 149, 174, 178–181, 182, 185, 186, 187, Red Power (see American Indian 188, 189, 194 Movement), 131 agit-prop, 119, 125 religious intolerance, 83–84 Agrell, Alfhild, 157 Tribes: Arapaho, 86, 88, 92; Caddo, 86, aids, see Acquired Immune Deficiency 88; Cherokee, 9; Cheyenne, 86, 93; Syndrome Chichimec, 196; Chippewa, 83; Aiken, George L., 8 Comanche, 88; Kiowa, 86, 88; Alan’s Wife (Robins), 157 Lakota, 80–96: Teton Lakota: Albee, Edward, 13 Hunkpapa, 83, Itazipco, 83, Alfieri, Vittorio, 2 Minneconjou, 83, 95, Oglala, 83, 89, Alianza Federal de Mercedes, La (Federal 91, Oohinumpa, 83, Sicangu, 83, Alliance of Land Grants), 129 Sihasapa or Blackfeet, 83;

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American Indians (cont.) Asian American, 13, 132, 174, 187, 189 Yankton Lakota, 87; Mohican, 183; assimilation, 82, 85–86, 94, 95, 97, 128, 132, Otomi,196; Paiute,85,87,88; Sachem, 133, 141, 174, 193 49; Shoshoni, 88; Sioux (see Lakota); anti-assimilation, 94, 95, 97, 140, 149 Tuscarora, 19, 43; Wichita, 86 Astor Place Riots, 8 “American jeremiad” (Berkovitch), 7 At the Foot of the Mountain, 163, 164, 168 American Me (Almos), 192 Augur, Gen. Christopher, 85 American Place Theatre, 152; see also Aztecs, 13, 131, 139, 143, 145, 149 Women’s Project American Revolution, 5, 11, 38–40, 47, 51, Baile de los Gigantes, El, 144 53, 56, 62, 68, 73, 74, 101, 152 Baptists, 99 American Woman: Six Periods of American Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 13, 131, Life (MacKaye), 155 132–139, 149 Americans Roused in a Cure for the Spleen, Barker, James Nelson, 6 The (Sewall), 35–38 Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, 104, 119 Ames, Fisher, 55, 75 Barre,´ Isaac, 48 Anderson, Benedict, 1, 2, 177, 189 Barrymore, Ethel, 153, 155 Anderson, Laurie, 169 Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The Andre´ (Dunlap), 65–69, 76–79 (Rabe), 145 Andre,´ Major John, 65–69, 76–79 Basshe, Em Jo, 125 Androboros (Hunter), 20–21, 24, 34 Bates, Esther Willard, 100 Angels in America (Kushner), 14, 176, Battle of Little Bighorn, 94 181–187, 199 Beauty and the Beast, 169 Antony, Marc, 106 Beauvais, Bishop (Pierre Cauchon), 70–71 Anthony, Susan B., 153, 155 Bedford, Duke of, 70 Antigone (Sophocles), 167 Bell, Gertrude, 157 Antigone Too: Rites of Love and Deﬁance Belle Reprieve (Split Britches and (Boesing), 167 Bloolips), 170 anti-war demonstrations, 130, 131, 141–142, Belmont, Mrs. O. H. P., 160 145–148, 149 Belt, The (Sifton), 125 anti-war performances, 132, 142–143, Benmussa, Simone, 169 145–148, 149–150 Benny, Jack, 134 Anzaldua,´ Gloria, 195, 196, 199 Benston, Kimberly, 117–118 Aoki, Brenda Wong, 14, 176, 187, 189–194, Bent (Sherman), 14 196, 201 Berkovitch, Sacvan, 7 Appia, Adolphe, 103 Bernard, William Bayle, 7 Approaching Simone (Terry), 166 Bernhardt, Sarah, 156 Argus, The, 68–69, 78 Berrigan, Daniel, 145 Aristophanes, 156 Bhabha, Homi, 1, 15 Arm Yourself, or Harm Yourself! (Baraka), Bharucha, Rustom, 174–175 134 Bider, Haydee Tamara Bunke, 166 Arnold, Benedict, 51, 66, 67, 77, 78 Big Foot, 93, 95 As Is (Hoffman), 14 Bill of Rights, The, 5 Asa Ga Kimashita (Houston), 187 Bimson, Chief of Police, 110, 117 Ashley, Jessie, 124 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 7

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Bits and Pieces ( Jacker), 165 Brown, William Wells, 8 Bjørnson, Bjornstjerne, 2 Building Bridges Not Walls (Smith, A.), 177 Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Bullins, Ed, 136 Harlem, 131, 134–135 Bunker-Hill; or, The Death of General Black Arts/West, Oakland, California Warren (Burk), 6, 53, 59–65, 66, 68, (Black House), 137 70, 73, 76, 77, 79 Black Arts/West, Seattle, Washington, Burgoyne, General, 47 137 Burk, John, 6, 53, 54, 56–57, 59–65, 68, Black Elk, 84, 89, 92–93 69–76, 77, 78, 79 Black House, 137 Burke, Edmund, 48 Black Ice (Patterson), 134, 135 Burke, Kenneth, 81 Black Mass (Baraka), 135 Burr, Aaron, 59 Black Nationalists, 13, 128–129, 133–134, 137, 149 Caldwell, Ben, 136 Black Panthers, 128, 129, 137 Camden, Lord (Charles Pratt), 48 Black Pit (Maltz), 100 Candida (Shaw, G. B.), 157, 159 Black Power, 128, 129, 131, 133, 149, 173 Candidates; or, The Humours of a Virginia Black Revolutionary Theatre, 13, 134, 136, Election, The (Munford), 27–29 138, 139, 149 capitalism, 11, 12, 13, 98, 99, 100, 101, 105, Blockade of Boston, The (Burgoyne), 47 107, 109, 119, 124, 125, 126, 133, 143, 199 “Blood for Blood” speech (Tresca), 107, Carby, Hazel, 174 115 Carlson, Marvin, 2 Bloolips, 170 Carmichael, Stokely, 128 Boesing, Martha, 163, 167 Carnegie steel plant strike, 98 Booth, Edwin, 156 Carnegie, Andrew, 98, 99 Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Carpa de los Rasquachis, La (Valdez and Fronterizo, 197 Teatro de Campesino), 145 Border Brujo (Gomez-Pe´ na),˜ 197–199, 200 Catholics, 4, 8, 11, 48, 49, 121, 166, 182, Boston Gazette, 46, 57, 58 186, 195, 196, 198 Boston Massacre, 39 Cato (Addison), 18, 29 Boston Tea Party, 19, 39, 43 Centuries, The (Basshe), 125 Boucicault, Dion, 8 Chaikin, Joseph, 164 Bourne, Bette, 170 Chapel Street Theatre, 17, 18 Bourne, Randolph, 123 Chautauquas, 11–12, 99–100, 111 Bowdoin, James, 41, 43 Chatham, Lord William, 48 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 31 Chavez,´ Cesar,´ 138 Brady, William A., 120 Checkley, John, 17 Brattle, William, 41, 43 Chicano Power, 131 Bread and Puppet Theatre, 145 Chicanos/as, 13, 129, 131–132, 138–145, 149, Brecht, Bertolt (Brechtian), 38, 70, 168, 173, 198–201 169 Chicomoztoc Mimixcoa – Cloud Serpents Broadway, 113, 125, 132, 145, 153, 155, 160, (Colorado Sisters), 196 161 child-labor, 110 Brougham, John, 9 Childress, Alice, 165 Brown, Gov. Edmund, 139 Chinese Exclusion Act, 11, 98

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Chinoy, Helen, 161 Contemporaries (Steele), 124 Christians, 23, 24, 166, 180, 194, 195; Continental Congress, 17, 20, 32, 34–35, see also separate denominations 38, 47 Church of England, 16, 21, 22 Contrast, The (Tyler), 6 Church Street Theatre (Charleston), 17 Convert, The (Robins), 158 Churchill, Caryl, 169 Conwell, Russell, 99 Cihuacoatl (goddess), 195 Cooke, George, 230 Civil Rights Movement, 127–129, 137, 151, Cooke, Gen. Philip, 84 161, 173, 174, 187 Cooper, Samuel, 66 Civil War (American), 8, 10, 101, 130 Cortez, Hernando, 195, 199 Cixous, Hel´ ene,` 163 Cotter, Holland, 174 Clapp, William, 57, 58 counterculture movement, 130, 131, 149 Cleaver, Eldridge, 137 Counter-Inaugural March, 160 Close, Glenn, 172 Court Theatre, 157 Clothesline Project, 172 Courts of Inspection, 35 Cloud Nine (Churchill), 169 Craig, Edward Gordon, 103 Clurman, Harold, 100 Crandell, William, 146–148 Coatlicue (goddess), 195 Cromwellian rebellion, 22 Coatlicue Theatre Company (Colorado cross-dressing, 169–170 Sisters), 166, 194, 199 Crothers, Rachel, 153–154 Cold War, 127, 173 Crown Heights (New York) riots (1991), College of New Jersey (Princeton 178 University), 30 Crucible, The (Miller, A.), 13 College of Philadelphia (University of “cultural genocide” (Holler), 83 Pennsylvania), 29–31, 33 cultural imperialism, 96, 180, 198 College of William and Mary, 29 Current Opinion, 121 Colorado Sisters, 14, 176, 187, 194–196, 201 Custer, General George, 94 Colorado, Elvira, 194 Colorado, Hortensia, 194 Daily Picayune, 8 Columbia Centinel, 63–64 “daily plebiscite” (Renan), 2 Columbus (Morton), 63–64 Daly, Augustin, 9 Columbus, Christopher, 195, 197, 199, 200 Daniels, Sarah, 168 Comaroff, Jean and John, 81, 116 Darby’s Return (Dunlap), 65 Common Sense (Paine), 38, 48 Dashiki Project Theatre, 137 “communally helping out” (“methexis”), Daughter’s Cycle, The (Women’s 117 Experimental Theatre), 165 Communists, 103, 119, 125, 127, 141, 143, Davies, Reverend Samuel, 16 148, 186 Davy Crockett (Murdock), 7 Conboy, Sarah, 109–110 De Lauretis, Teresa, 167 Concept East, 137 Dead March (tune), 106, 114 Conduct of Life, The (Fornes), 168 Death of a Salesman (Miller, A.), 13 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 129 Debates at the Robin-Hood Society in the Conrad, Robert T., 7 City of New-York, On Monday Night Constant State of Desire, The (Finlay), 167 19th July, 1774, 34, 35, 36 Constitution of the United States, 5, 53, Debs, Eugene, 98 54, 76, 160 Defeat, The (Warren), 36, 39, 40–43

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Defence of the Constitutions of Government Escape; or, A Leap from Freedom, The of the United States of America (Brown), 8 (Adams), 54 essentialism, 138, 149, 173, 174 Democratic National Convention, 130 strategic essentialism, 171 Democratic Republicans, 54, 55–56, 57, 59, Execution of Justice (Mann), 161 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 70, 74, 76, 78 Exercise Consisting of a Dialogue and Ode, Denny, Reginald, 178 Sacred to the Memory of his late Depot (Ensler), 170 Gracious Majesty George II, An, 29–30 Depression, the Great, 12, 100, 125, 193 Exercise Containing a Dialogue and Ode, Derr, W. R., 7 on the Accession of his Present Gracious Dialogue, Between a Southern Delegate, Majesty George III, An, 30 and His Spouse, on his Return from the Exercise Containing a Dialogue and Ode, Grand Continental Congress, A on the Occasion of Peace, An, 31 (Mary V. V.), 34–35 Exercise Containing a Dialogue and Two Dialogue Containing Some Reﬂections Odes, An, 31 (anon.), 21, 22, 23–24, 25, 29 Disappointment, The (Forrest, T.), 18 Fall of British Tyranny, The (Leacock), Dodge, Mabel, 102–104, 115, 124 47–51, 52 Dolan, Jill, 161, 163, 167 Farrakhan, Louis, 178 Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 153 Fashion (Mowatt), 153 Don’t You Want to be Free? (Hughes), 101, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 125 137 Dos Caras del Patroncito, Las (El Teatro Federal Street Theatre, 56, 57, 58, 59 Campesino), 139 Federal Theatre Project, 125 Douglass, David, 17, 18, 27 Federalist Papers, The, 64, 179 Drew, Mrs. John (Louisa Lane), 154 Federalists, 6, 53, 54–56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, Drexler, Rosalyn, 163 65–67, 73–74, 75, 76, 77 Du Bois, W. E. B., 102, 132 Female Patriotism (Burk), 69–76, 79 Dunlap, William, 53, 56, 64–69, 75, “feminine morphology” (Case), 162 76–79 feminism, Dunmore, Lord John, 50 liberal (bourgeois), 161, 162, 163, 172 Dutchman (Baraka), 131, 132–133, 134 radical (or cultural), 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 170, 171, 172 “ecriture´ feminine”´ (Cixous), 163 materialist (or socialist), 161, 162, 167, El Movimiento, 140 169, 170, 172 Emancipation of Women, The Ferrazzano, Toto, 107 (Samolinska), 153 Fetterman Massacre, 84 Emma (Little Flags), 166 Field, Joseph M., 8 Emmatroupe, 168 Fierstein, Harvey, 14 End of the Line (Gomez-Pe´ na),˜ 197 Fifth Avenue Theatre, 155 Ensler, Eve, 14, 170–172 Fin del Mundo, 145 Episcopal Church, 193 Finlay, Karen, 167 Equal Rights Amendment, 160, 161 Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Equal Rights Pageant (MacKaye), 155 Brooklyn and Other Identities Equality League of Self-Supporting (Smith, A.), 177, 178, 180–181 Women, 159 Fish, Stanley, 175, 180

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Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 153 GirlStartsOut...ATragedyin4 Parts, Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 107–108, 110, 111, A (Emmatroupe), 168 115, 120, 122 Giuliani, Mayor Rudolph, 172 for colored girls...(Shange), 163, 164 Giving Up the Ghost (Moraga), 163 Ford, Henry, 98 Gladiator, The (Bird), 7 Fornes, Maria Irene, 168 Glaspell, Susan, 124, 154 Forrest, Edwin, 7, 8, 9 Globe and Commercial Advertiser, 104–105 Forrest, Thomas, 18 Glory Box (Miller, T.), 14 Fort Laramie Treaty, 94 Glory of Columbia: Her Yeomanry, The Forte, Jeanie, 167 (Dunlap), 69, 76–78, 79 Fox, Claire, 197 Gnostics, 166 Fractura Minimi Digiti (Dunlap), 66 Godfrey, Thomas, 18 Franklin, Benjamin, 21 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 2 Free Speech Movement, 130 Gold, Mike, 124 Freire, Paulo, 190 Goldberg, Whoopi, 172 French and Indian War, 24, 25, 30 Goldemberg, Rose Leiman, 165 French Revolution, 2, 6, 54, 55, 62, 65, 66, Golden, John, 109–110 71, 73, 75 Goldman, Emma, 166, 167 Freneau, Philip, 31, 68 Gomez-Pe´ na,˜ Guillermo, 14, 176, 187, 194, Freud, Sigmund, 171 196–201 From the Outside Looking In (Smith, A.), Gorbachev, Mikhail, 173 177 Gordon, Linda, 152 Fuller, Charles, 136 Gould, George Jay, 98 Furies of Mother Jones, The (Little Flags), Greenblatt, Stephen, 1 166 Greenwich Street Theatre, 64 Grein, J. T. ( Jacob Thomas), 157 Gage, Gen. Thomas, 18, 32, 44, 45, 47, Group, The (Warren), 39, 44–47, 152 50 Guevara, Che, 166 Gainor, J. Ellen, 4 Gamut Club, 160 Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill, E.), 124 Garvey, Marcus, 133 Haley, Alex, 173 gay, 13, 14, 130, 161, 170, 172, 181–187, 194, Hallam, Lewis, 17, 18, 27 201 Hamilton, Cicely, 156 Gaye, Marvin, 133 Hamilton, Alexander, 54–55, 76 Geertz, Clifford, 81, 89 Hamlet (Shakespeare), 18 Gender Bending: On the Road Princeton Hancock, John, 49 University (Smith, A.), 177 Hanover, Donna, 172 George Barnwell (Lillo), 17 Hapgood, Hutchins, 111, 112, 113, 116, George II, King of England, 30, 33 124 George III, King of England, 24, 30, 31, Harburger, Sheriff, 115, 118, 119 49 Harlem Equal Rights League, 159 Getting Out (Norman), 163, 168 Harlem Renaissance, 12, 132, 160 Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion, The Harlem Suitcase Theatre, 125 (La Barre), 80 Harriman, Edward H., 98 Ghosts (Ibsen), 157, 159 Harvard University, 51, 103, 104 Gillespie, Patti, 161, 164 Haymarket Theatre, 57, 58

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Haywood, William, 102–109, 111–112, 114, “I Have a Dream” speech (King), 127 115, 118, 122, 123, 124 Ibsen, Henrik, 2, 153, 157, 159 He and She (Crothers), 154 Imagined Communities (Anderson), 1, 2, Hecht, Rabbi Shea, 180–181 177, 189 Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 156, 159 immigration, 4–5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 98, 99, Heidi Chronicles, The (Wasserstein), 164 100, 102, 111, 126, 153, 175, 182, 197, Hellman, Lillian, 160 201 HenryVIPartI(Shakespeare), 70, 71 Impressionistic Sketch of the Anti-Suffragists Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 11 (Shaw, M.), 159 Heroes and Saints (Moraga), 167 Impressions, The, 133 heterosexual, 12, 14, 127, 162, 169, 170, 185 In Mourning and in Rage..., 168 Hicks, Granville, 124 Independent Theatre, 157 Higson, Andrew, 3 Independent, 108, 121 History of the American Theatre (Dunlap), Indians, see Native Americans 65 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), History of the Revolution (Warren), 54 98, 102, 106–111, 115, 116, 117, 119–124 Hodgkinson, John, 56, 63, 69, 76, 79 Interart, 163 Hoffman, Abbie, 130 Interior Scroll (Schneeman), 167 Hoffman, William, 14 International Socialist Review, 109, 112, Holler, Clyde, 83 114, 116, 120, 122 Holocaust, the, 178 Internationale, The (song), 108, 109, 113 Home of the Brave (Anderson), 169 Interurban Council of Women Suffrage Homestead strike, 98 Clubs, 159 homosexuality, see gay and lesbian “Intolerable Acts”, 32 hooks, bell, 162 Irving, Henry, 155 Horizon (Daly), 9 It’s All Right to be Women, 164 House Arrest (Smith, A.), 177 House Committee on un-American Jack Benny Show, 134 Activities, 127 Jack Cade (Conrad), 7 House of Burgesses, 27 Jacker, Corinne, 165 Houston, Velina Hasu, 187–189, 194, 196, Jackson, President Andrew, 7 201 Jackson, Reverend Jesse, 173 How I Learned to Drive (Vogel), 168, 170, Jamieson, George, 8 172 Japanese internment, 12, 193 How the Vote Was Won (Hamilton), 156 Jay’s Treaty, 55 Huerta, Dolores, 129, 131 Jefferson College, 59 Hughes, Langston, 100–101, 125 Jefferson, President Thomas, 38, 55, 59, Hugo, Victor, 2 62, 76 Hunt, Edward, 104 JELLO (Baraka), 134 Hunt, Gen. Washington, 84 Jenkins, Linda Walsh, 151, 169 Hunter, Robert, 20 Jesus Christ, 16, 24, 166 Huntington, David, 10 Jews, 4, 132, 166, 169, 178, 182, 183, 185, 186, Hutchinson, Foster, 39, 44 187 Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas, 36, 39–45 Jihad Productions, 135 Hutchinson, Thomas (son of Governor), “Jim Crow” laws, 8, 11 39 Joan of Arc, 70–74, 75

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John Street Theatre (New York), 17 Lee, Gen. Charles, 51 Johnson, Eleanor, 168 lehrstucke,¨ 38 Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 160 Leonard, Dr. William T., 8 Johnson, Hester, 160 lesbian, 161, 162, 164, 167, 169–170, 171 Jones, LeRoy, see Amiri Baraka Lessig, Adolph, 107, 115 Jones, Mother, 167 Letters Home (Goldemberg), 165 Jones, Robert Edmond, 103 Levy, Carolyn, 168 Joseph, May, 187 liberals, 175 Judas, 24 Lillo, George, 17 Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 18 Lincoln, President Abraham, 84 Lincoln, Bruce, 89 Kaddish, 184, 186 Lindsley, A. B., 6 Kahn, Otto, 124 Lion of the West (Paulding), 7 Karenga, Ron, 137 Little Flags, 166 Karin (Agrell), 157 Living Newspaper, 125 Katona, Jozsef, 2 Living Theatre, The, 145 Kent State University, 130 Llorona, - The Wailing Woman, La Kentuckian, The (Bernard), 7 (Coatlicue), 195 Kerner Commission report, 179 Lock and Key (Hoare), 57 Kerry, Senator John, 130 London Company of Comedians, 17–18, King, Martin Luther Jr., 127–128, 129 20 King, Rodney, 178 Loneliness of the Immigrant, The Kisfaludy, Karoly, 2 (Gomez-Pe´ na),˜ 201 Kicking Bear, 93, 94 Loomba, Ania, 81 Kit Carson, the Hero of the Prairie (Derr), 7 Lorde, Audre,´ 162 Klein, Maxine, 166 Los Angeles Feminist Theatre, 163 Kleist, Heinrich von, 2 Louisiana Purchase, 5 Klopstock, Friedrich, 2 Love and Friendship (Lindsley), 6 KNBC television, 141 Loyalists, 5, 29, 31, 34–38, 42, 43, 44, 47, Koettgen, Ewald, 122 52, 66; see also Tories Kramer, Larry, 14 Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 156 Kushner, Tony, 14, 176, 181–187, 188, 196, 201 MacKaye, Hazel, 155–156 Kuwapi, 87 MacKaye, Percy, 99 Macready, William Charles, 8 La Barre, Weston, 80 Madison, President James, 179 labor unions, 98, 100, 109, 112, 114, 119, Madonna, 185 129, 138–139, 166; see also IWW and Magdalene, Mary, 166 UFW magical realism, 182 LaFollette, Fola, 156 Malpede, Karen, 165 Lament for Three Women, A (Malpede), Maltz, Albert, 100 165 Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Lawson, John Howard, 124 (France), 103 Lea, Marion, 156–157 Man’s World, A (Crothers), 154 Leacock, John (alias Dick Riﬂe), 47–51 Mandan Pioneer, The, 87 Leave It to Beaver, 127 Manifest Destiny, 14, 82

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Mann, Emily, 161 Monthly Magazine, 76 Manzoni, Alessandro, 2 Mooney, James, 85–92, 94 Marble, Danforth, 7 Moore, Honor, 165 March on Washington, 127 Moraga, Cherr´ıe, 162, 163, 167, 176, Marseillaise (tune), 105, 106, 108, 109, 201–202 117, 120 Morgan, J. P., 98 Marx on her Mind (Little Flags), 166 Mormons, 182, 185, 186, 187, 193 Marxist, 137, 143, 144, 149 Morning Has Broken (see Asa Ga Massachusetts Spy, 39, 46 Kimashita), 187 Master Builder, The (Ibsen), 157 Morning Telegraph, 155 Masterpieces (Daniels), 168–169 Motion of History, The (Baraka), 137–138 Matthews, John, 109 Mourning Pictures (Moore), 165 Maxwell, Elsa, 160 Movimiento, El, 129, 140 May, Elaine Tyler, 127 Mowatt, Anna Cora, 153 Maya, 13, 131, 144, 149 Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shaw, G. B.), 159 McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 13, 127, 181 Muhammad, Elijah, 128, 133 McCloskey, James, 9 multiracialism, 180 McConachie, Bruce, 7 Mulvey, Laura, 162–163, 167 McLaughlin, James, 94–95 Mundo Mata (Valdez), 145 Medina, Louisa, 7 Munford, Robert, 27–29 Melinda and Her Sisters (Belmont and Muntu Reading Group, 136 Maxwell), 160 Murdock, Frank, 7 Melting Pot, The (Zangwill), 99 musicals, 125 Metamora; or, The Last of the Pollywogs Mutation Show (Open Theatre), 164–165 (Brougham), 9 Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags Nation of Islam, 120 (Stone), 7, 9 National American Woman’s Suffrage “methexis”, 117 Association (NAWSA), 155 Mexican American, 121, 129, 138, 139, 140, National Association for the 141 Advancement of Colored People Miguel, Muriel, 165 (NAACP), 129 Miles, Julia, 152 National Chicano Moratorium, 141 Military Glory of Great Britain, The, 30 National Rainbow Coalition, 173 Miller, Arthur, 13 National Women’s Party, 155, 160 Miller, John C., 74–75 nationalism, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25, 31, 33, Miller, Tim, 14 38, 52, 53, 54, 56, 62, 64, 67, 69, 76, 77, minstrel shows, 8 78, 79, 133, 135, 137, 143, 149, 176, 200, Miracles, The, 133 201; see also Black Nationalists Miss in her Teens (Garrick), 56 nation-state, 1, 2, 5, 6, 16, 56, 62, 82, 86, Moderwell, Hiram, 124 153, 176 Modestino, Mrs., 107, 114 Native Americans, see American Indians Modestino, Valentino, 106–107 Nazimova, Alla, 153 Modjeska, Helena, 154 Neal, Larry, 133, 135, 136 Monroe Doctrine, 11 Necessary Targets (Ensler), 170 Monroe, President James, 59 Negro Digest, 137 Montgomery, Robert, 7 New Playwrights Theatre, 124

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New York Call, 108, 115, 117, 120 On to Victory ( Johnson), 160 New York Dramatic Mirror, 154 One-Third of a Nation, 125 New York Evening Post, 77–78 O’Neill, Eugene, 124 New York Evening World, 113–114 O’Neill, James, 156 New York Herald, 113, 117 Open Theatre, 164 New York Journal, 19 Operation Rapid American Withdrawal New York Press, 107, 112, 113, 114, 115, 118, (Vietnam Veterans Against the 120, 121 War), 146 New York Spirit of the Times, 8 Oresteia (Aeschylus), 165 New York Times, 84, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, Organization for Afro-American Unity, 108, 113, 118, 120, 121, 122, 146, 159 120 New York Tribune, 101, 105, 106–107, 114, Organization of African Unity, 120 115, 119, 120 Otis, James, 39, 40, 43 New York World, 114, 121 Our Town (Wilder), 186 Newsweek, 139 Ozzie and Harriet, 127 Newton, Huey, 128 Niccolini, Giambattista, 2 Pageant of Susan B. Anthony (MacKaye), Nick of the Woods (Medina), 7 155 1992: Blood Speaks (Colorado Sisters), Pageants and Pageantry (Bates), 100 195–196 Paine, Thomas, 38, 48, 55, 132, 150 Nineteenth Amendment of the pamphlet plays Constitution (ratiﬁcation), 160 religious, 17 Nixon, President Richard M., 130, 137 political, 20, 34–51 Normal Heart, The (Kramer), 14 Park Theatre, 65 Norman, Marsha, 163, 168 Parker, Charlie, 133 Nurses for Peace, 146 Parks, Rosa, 167 Parrot’s Cage, The (Shaw, M.), 159 Obake (Aoki), 189 Paterson Evening News, 122 Obeyesekere, Gananath, 81 Patraka, Vivian, 164 Obie awards, 131, 140, 166, 171 Patriots, 5, 16, 19, 20, 31–52, 68; see also Octoroon; or, Life in Lousiana, The Sons of Liberty (Boucicault), 8 Patriots, The (Munford), 5, 16, 19, 20, Odets, Clifford, 100 31–52, 68 Oehlenschlager, Adam, 2 Patterson, Charles, 134 off-Broadway, 161 Paul, Alice, 155, 160 O’Keefe, John, 65 Paulding, James Kirke, 7 Old American Company, 64 Pavis, Patrice, 175–176, 177 Old Plantation; or, Uncle Tom As He Is, Paxton Boys, The, 21–23, 24, 28, 29 The ( Jamieson), 8 Paxton Rebellion (Paxton Boys), 21–24 Oliver, Andrew, 39, 40, 42, 43 peace movement, 130, 131, 146–148; see also Oliver, Peter, 39, 40, 44 anti-war demonstrations; anti-war On Black Identity and Black Theatre performances (Smith, A.), 177 Peace of Paris, 5 “On the Road: A Search for American Pearl, Precious, 170 Character” (Smith, A.), 177 Pease, Donald, 7

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire), 190 Quinlan, Patrick, 107, 115 “penis envy” (Freud), 171 Quinta Temporada, La (El Teatro Penn, Thomas, 33 Campesino), 139 Pensamiento Serpentino (Valdez), 144 Peters, Paul, 100 Rabe, David, 145, 149 Philadelphia Guerrilla Theatre, 146 Raped: A Woman’s Look at Bertolt Plath, Sylvia, 165 Brecht’s ‘The Exception and the Rule’ Poem on the Rising Glory of American (At the Foot of the Mountain), Being an Exercise Delivered at the 168 Public Commencement of “raza, la”, 138, 143, 149 Nassau-Hall, A (Freneau and Reagan, President Ronald, 170, 173, 185 Brackenridge), 31 Red Cloud, 82, 84 “Political Reverie, A” (Warren), 43 Red Flag, The (song), 108, 109 Ponteach; or, The Savages of America Red Ladder, 169 (Rogers), 25–27, 29 Reed, John, 103–105, 115, 122, 123–124 Pontiac (Ponteach), 21, 25–27 Reinhardt, Max, 121 Poor Soldier (O’Keefe), 65 religious rituals, 80–81, 96, 97 Pope, Gen. John, 82, 84 Renan, Ernest, 1–2 Popular Front plays, 125 Republicans, 184; see also Democratic postmodernism, 176 Republicans Power Pipes (Spiderwoman Theatre Revere, Paul, 32 Company), 168, 195 “Revolutionary Theatre, The” (Baraka), Prayer Meeting: or, The First Militant 134 Preacher (Caldwell), 136 Richard III (Shakespeare), 18 Presbyterians, 16, 21–24 Richards, Sandra, 180 Prescot, Gen. William, 50 Richardson, Gary, 66 President’s March, The, 75 Riﬂe, Dick (Leacock), 47 Prince of Parthia, The (Godfrey), 18 right to vote (women), 12, 153, 156 Princeton University, 30, 31, 177 Rights of Man (Paine), 55 Prolet-Buhne, 125 riots (theatre), 8, 18, 19, 56 Protestants, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 48, 59, 99, Robin, Claude, 51 110; see also separate denominations, Robins, Elizabeth, 14, 156–159 182, 183, 185, 187 Rochambeau, Gen. Jean Baptiste Provincetown Playhouse, 124, 154 Donatien de Vimeur, 77 Public Theatre (New York), 178 Rockefeller, John D., 98, 99 Puerto Ricans, 129, 142 Rogers, Robert, 25 Pulitzer Prize, 136, 168, 170, 172 Roman Church, see Catholics Pullman strike, 98 Romanticism, 2, 3, 11 Puritans, 16, 182 Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 64 Pushkin, Alexander, 2 Roosevelt, President Franklin, 12 Putnam, Gen. Israel, 51 Roosevelt, President Theodore, 99 Roots (Haley), 173 Quakers, 4, 16, 21–24, 36, 37, 38 Rosenberg, Ethel, 127, 181–182, 184 Queen’s Garden, The (Aoki), 189, 190–192, Rosenberg, Julius, 127, 184 194 Rosler, Martha, 167

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 11, 25 Short Bull, 83, 87–88, 93 Rubin, Jerry, 130 Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, The Ruggles, Timothy, 45 (Valdez), 131, 140 Rush, Benjamin, 62 Sifton, Paul, 113, 125 Russell, Lillian, 154, 155, 160 Silverman (Silberman), Hannah, 104, Russian Revolution, 37, 103, 124 106, 110, 114, 115 Ryder, Winona, 172 Sinclair, Upton, 125 Singing Jailbirds (Sinclair), 125 sadomasochist (masochist, sadist), Singular Life of Albert Nobs, The 162–163, 168 (Benmussa), 169 Said, Edward, 1 Sitting Bull (Arapaho), 92 Salazar, Ruben, 142 Sitting Bull (Lakota), 94–95, 97 Salt of the Earth, 121 Sklar, George, 100 Samolinska, Theoﬁlia, 153 Sklar, Roberta, 165–166 San Francisco Mime Troupe, 131, 145 Slave, The (Baraka), 132–133, 134 San Jose State College, 131 Slave Ship (Baraka), 135–136 Sanchez, Sonia, 136 Smith, Anna Deavere, 14, 176–184, Sanger, Margaret, 124, 167 186–190, 192, 194, 196, 201 Savran, David, 185 Smith, Bessie, 133 Schanke, Robert, 158 social Darwinism, 14 Schechner, Richard, 80, 186 socialism, 14, 98, 99, 108, 118, 120, 124, 125, Scherman, Bernadine Kielty, 104 162, 169, 185 Schiller, Friedrich, 2 Socialist Party, 98, 107, 117 Schneeman, Carolee, 167 Soldado Razo, 143 Scott, Alexander, 107 Soldiers’ Play, A (Fuller), 136–137 Scott, Leroy, 124 Solidarity, 123 Seale, Bobbie, 128 Sollee, John, 64 search-and-destroy enactments, 132, 146 Solomon, King, 48 Sellers, Cleveland, 129, 137 Sons of Liberty, 18, 19; see also Patriots Selwyn, William, 87 Sophia (goddess), 166 Senelick, Lawrence, 2 Sophocles, 167 separatism Southern Christian Leadership ethnic, 128, 129, 137, 173, 200, 201 Conference (SCLC), 129 gender, 164 Southwark Theatre (Philadelphia), 17 Sewall, Jonathan, 36, 42 Spiderwoman Theatre Company, 165, Shakespeare, William, 17, 18, 64, 70, 185 166, 168, 172, 195 Shakti (goddess), 166 Spirit House, 131, 135, 136 Shange, Ntozake, 136, 163, 164 Split Britches, 169–170, 172 Shaw, George Bernard, 157, 159 Stage Struck Yankee, The (Marble), 7 Shaw, Mary, 159–160 Stam, Robert, 175, 201 Shaw, Peggy, 169–170 Stamp Act (riots), 5, 18, 19, 25, 31, 39, 40, Shekina (goddess), 166 41 Sherman, Gen. William T., 84–85 Star of Ethiopia, The (Du Bois), 100 Sherman, Martin, 14 Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 124 Shohat, Ella, 175, 201 Steinem, Gloria, 166

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stereotypes Tannenbaum, Frank, 124 African American, 8–9, 12, 131 Tantric Buddhism, 166 American character, 6–7, 99, 110 Tea (Houston), 187–188 American Indian, 9 Tears and Smiles (Barker), 6 gender, 151, 160, 169 Teatro de la Esperanza, 140 Irish, 8 Teatro Campesino, El, 131, 132, 138–145, Mexican American, 141 149 Stevedore (Peters and Sklar), 100, 125 Teatro de la Gente, 140 Sticks and Bones (Rabe), 145 Teatro Nacional de Aztlan,´ El stock market, crash of 1929, 100, 125 (TENAZ), 140 Stokes, Rose Pastor, 108 Ten Days that Shook the World (Reed), Stone, Augustus, 7 103 Stonewall riot, 130 Terry, Megan, 166 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 8 Thatcher, Prime Minister Margaret, 170 Streamers (Rabe), 145 Theatre Union, 125 street theatre, 132, 146 Three Weeks in May, 167 Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 170 Tijerina, Reies Lopez, 129 Strike While the Iron is Hot (Red Ladder), Time Piece, The, 68, 69, 74 169 Tomlin, Lily, 172 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Tonantz´ın, 144, 145 Committee (SNCC), 129 Top Girls (Churchill), 169 Students for a Democratic Society Torch Song Trilogy (Fierstein), 14 (SDS), 129 Tories (see also Loyalists), 19, 34–36, 44, Studio Watts Workshop, 137 46, 49, 50 Suffolk Resolves of Massachusetts, 32, Treadwell, Sophie, 160 34, 35, 36 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 5, 129 suffragists (suffragettes), 14, 153, 154, 156, Tresca, Carlo, 106, 107, 108, 115 157, 158–160, 172 Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Berrigan), suffragist theatre, 12, 14, 154, 156–160, 145 161 Triﬂes (Glaspell), 154 Suﬁs, 166 Trinity College Dublin, 59 Summary View of the Rights of British Turner, Fredrick Jackson, 10 America, The ( Jefferson), 38 Turner, Victor, 80 Sun Dance, 83, 85, 88, 89, 95, 96 Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Smith, A.), Sword, George, 91 177, 178–179, 180, 192 Survey, The, 111, 113, 120 Tyler, Royall, 6 “symbolic action” (Burke), 81 Uncle Gunjiro’s Girlfriend (Aoki), 189, tableaux vivants, 160 193–194 Taft, President William, 99 Uncle Sam, 7, 14 Take Back the Night, 167, 168, 172 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 8 Talbot, Lord John, 7 Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Louisiana (Leonard), Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 74 8 Tammany, Chief, 49 Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or Life in the South As Tania (Little Flags), 166 It Is (Field), 8

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Union Club, 159 Vorse, Mary, 124 Unionists, 158 Votes for Women (Robins), 156, 157–159 United Farmworkers Union (UFW), 129, 131, 132, 138, 139, 140, 149 Wagner, Richard, 2 University of California, Berkeley, Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 100, 125 130 Walker, James, 86 University of Pennsylvania (College of War of Independence, see American Philadelphia), 29, 30, 31, 33 Revolution Uno, Roberta, 188 Warren, James, 39, 43, 46–47 Unthinking Eurocentrism (Shohat and Warren, Joseph, 50, 53, 59, 60–62, 63 Stam), 175, 201 Warren, Mercy Otis, 36, 39–47, 48, 52, 54, Until Someone Wakes Up (Levy), 168 99, 152–153 Urban League, 129 Washington, President George, 6, 17, 27, Utley, Robert, 94 38, 48, 51, 53, 67, 68, 77 Wasserstein, Wendy, 164 “vagina envy”, 171 Watts riots, 129, 179, 180 Vagina Monologues, The (Ensler), 14, Wayne, John, 147 170–172 We Fight Back, 168 Valdez, Luis, 13, 131, 132, 138–145 Weaver, Lois, 169–170 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 98 Wedding Band (Childress), 165 Vassar College, 156 Weil, Simone, 166 Vaudeville Theatre (London), 156 West Street Theatre (Annapolis), 17 vaudeville, 155 Whigs, 16, 18, 31, 32, 33, 36, 40, 48, 49 V-Day (Victory, Valentine’s and Vagina White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP), Day), 171–172 see Protestants “vehicle of history-in-the-making” Whitman, Walt, 185 (Comaroff ), 116 Wild West shows, 9, 94 Vendidos, Los (Teatro Campesino), 141 Wilder, Thornton, 186 Verdi, Giuseppe, 2 Wilkes, John, 48 Vermont Wool Dealer, The (Marble), 7 Williams, Tennessee, 170 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Williamsburg Theatre, 17 148 Wilson, August, 136 Victoria Theatre, 155 Wilson, President Woodrow, 99, 155, 156, Vietnam Campesino (Teatro Campesino), 160 142 Winthrop, Hannah, 44 Vietnam Veterans Against the War Winthrop, John, 43 (VVAW), 13, 130, 131–132, 141, Woman’s National Theatre, 160 146–149, 150 Women’s Experimental Theatre, 165 Vietnam War, 13, 130, 141, 142–143, Women’s Project, 152; see also American 145–150, 151, 161, 173, 191 Place Theatre Vinegar Tom, (Churchill), 169 Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret! A Virgen del Guadalupe, 144, 145, 167 (Centlivre), 18 Vital Statistics (Rosler), 167 Word to the Wise, A (Kelly), 19 Vogel, Paula, 168, 170, 172 Workers Laboratory Theatre, 125 Voices of Bay Area Women (Smith, A.), 177 World War I, 99

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World War II, 12, 127, 147, 150, 160, 187, X, Malcolm (Malcolm Little), 128, 133 193 X, Y, Z Affair, 74, 76 Wounded Knee, massacre at, 86, 87, 91, 95 Yeats, William Butler, 2 second battle of, 95, 129 Youth International Party (Yippy), 130 Wovoka, ( Jack Wilson), 85, 86, 87, 90, 93 Zangwill, Israel, 99 WOW Cafe,´ 169 Zoot Suit (Valdez), 145